We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long"… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel,… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
